Reading and listening comprehension in the narrative of students with ADHD comorbid with Dyslexia

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Pilar Vieiro-Iglesias
Mª Dolores González-Fernández

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The aim of this study was to test the possible impact of the form information in presented (reading vs. listening situation) on the comprehension of narrative texts in students with ADHD comorbid with dyslexia. An experimental group with a mean age of 8.5 years and a control group with a mean age of 8.9 years participated. Three measures were used to analyse comprehension: lexical diversity, cohesive resources and episodic structure. The results showed no significant differences in the control group on all the measures under study, but there were significant differences in some measures in the experimental group, so that the use of cohesive resources and lexical diversity were favoured by the reading situation. Measures of episodic structure were not significantly affected by presentation modality.

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Vieiro-Iglesias, P., & González-Fernández, M. D. (2024). Reading and listening comprehension in the narrative of students with ADHD comorbid with Dyslexia. Ocnos. Journal of Reading Research, 24(1). https://doi.org/10.18239/ocnos_2025.24.1.494
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